Word: bohemianism
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...acid flashbacks.'' In other words: been there, done that. For any smug baby boomer, it is pleasant to see the young so precisely following in one's footsteps. A century ago, there was Dostoyevsky on the one hand and Dickens on the other. You could be a doomed bohemian man of principle, or you could be popular, but it was pretty hard to be both. Beginning around 1965, however, rock's big stars became a new breed of living oxymoron: it was possible to become rich and even powerful by striking extravagant poses of contempt for the rich and powerful...
...large, the paradox at the heart of bohemian superstardom has been tolerated or ignored by successive waves of teenage fans, although it makes for pretty luscious ironies. ''We've got to the stage where we end the night by destroying everything,'' Pete Townshend said in 1967, ''which is expensive.'' At their zenith in 1977, the Sex Pistols peevishly canceled a Saturday Night Live appearance. SNL creator Lorne Michaels, who has himself made a lucrative career out of counterculturalism, complained, ''It's very strange that a group that prides itself on representing the underground turns us down because...
...Iran, you either have to make it all the way to the top or get exterminated - the necessary layers in the middle are completely missing," explains Sadighi in a Bohemian café in downtown Tehran, where Hafta has started a program to promote a different musician every week. "In other countries you have clubs, restaurants, smaller concert venues, subway stations, and a lot of other spaces where you can be face-to-face with people. Our artists don't have that space...
...Ginsberg and Kerouac are oracle and cantor of the Beat Generation’s metaphysical search for IT. IT is the moment of reckoning, the bohemian nirvana, the ultimate thrill. IT is sought by several means: by sex, by bullfighting, by jazz—when the man with the trumpet finds what he’s looking for and brings his audience with him. IT is found in motion, in the “night-cars” which whisk across the Continent both in Kerouac’s novel and in Howl. IT is no more obscure than absolution...
...liar, impostor, and parasite "ready to do whatever it takes to attain fortune and fame." Excerpts and previews of the tell-all tome have generated major interest in France, as critics and readers alike gaze upon the spectacle of the nation's most famously jaded and cynical Bohemian being ridiculed in public by a mother who admits in disgust: "I don't want to hear about him any more...